Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-09
THE CITY ENLARGING.

THE CITY ENLARGING.
 Some of The Many Improvements Nm
 Progress Or Completed In The
 Whitney Avenue And East Rock
 Section.
 Whitney avenue appears to have thrown of it's old time and long continued inactivi- ty, and the oldest inhabitant does not re- member such threatened boom on this an cient and beautiful thoroughfare as that in dicated at present. Laborers have been busy excayating big cellar for the William E. Downes thirty thousand dollar residence on the avenue, between Edwards and Law renee streets. The Bishop street extension, from Orange street to the avenue, through the Mrs. Foote property, is completed ;the ex- tension of Cottage street from Orange street to this avenue, is in similarly advanced state, and one or two more streets between Cot tage and Gamer streets, have just cut through to Whitney avenue. The street cutting in each case involves cutting through a good sized hill or rise of ground, Whitney avenue being considerably higher ground than Or ange street, and a large number of men, horses and dump carts have been kept busy for months in the work. Through the woods to the west of where the work for the Downes residence is being started can be seen the neat, we'll built and attractive house which Rev. John c. Collins hes about done on St. Roman street. and which is to be followed ere long by other houses of 8 simi- lar class in the same street. The tall nick ory and chestnut trees on the west of the ave- nue afford leafy bowers under which children love to frolic and play picnic; and here dis porting among the leafy branches and look ing as if playing hide and seek up and down the tree trunks and branches may still be seen few of the once numerous colony of squirrels that made Whitney avenue so in- teresting to the children 8 few years ago. Their numbers have been gradually dimin- ishing for years past owing to their being targets for pistol ball practice and for stone throwing by lawless boys and men. The nests of some of these Hast of the Mo hicans' may be seen on the tall trees and occasionally two or three lovers of na- ture, who have made something of name in literature, have spent pleasant moments this spring in playing spy in harmless way by hiding among the coverts and observing the tiny little baby squirrels that form some of the new broods this year. A gentleman, who has made the habits and pranks of the Whit ney avenue squirrels something of study for pastime, estimates that there are yet over one hundred squirrels to be found whose nests are in the tree tops between Humphrey street. Cor, perhaps, from Bradley) and the woods about and opposite the Whitney armory.
 A great change is also going on on Avon street, which runs parallel to Edwards street and is the next above the latter street On this street between Eos ter and Orange streets six houses are now being erected, all by Germans who recently bought the land and are building the houses fer their own occupation. MT. Hauser is building one of them, MT. Gorth another, and MT. Homan, who works at the Pfeghar shop, has bought lot close by. MT. Krauss, living over the Sheridan grocery on NicoIl street, has also bought 8 lot here and three new houses were built on the street last year. MT. Fred Schuessler, a machinist who has worked many years at the New Haven Manufacturing company's shop, has bought the house on Niooll street next his home lot of ex-Mayor Sperry, and his son-in-law, John Miller of Austin &1 Gilbert's market, has moved into it.
 MT. Adam Lutz, the cigar and tobacco dealer on Church street, recently built a house on Nicell street next his home lot. The lot was bought of savings bank.
 MT. J. D. Shelley, for many years fancy goods merchant on Chapel street, has recently erected a dwelling house on Nicoll street above Eagle, and there are various other i'm provements in progress in the section be- tween Nicoll and Orange streets. The cellar walls are also laid for the new Baptist mis- sion corner of Lawrence and Foster streets.
 Another improvement of note in this sec tion is the extension of Edwards street through to Prospect street. This work in- volved cutting through the abrupt rise of ground or hill near Prospect street, and the transportation Of several thousands of loads of earth. The work is now completed. and the grade is not as formidable as many thought it would be.